At the Akron Zoo, a proactive stance has been taken to protect its feathered residents from the H5N1 bird flu, leading to the temporary closure of the popular aviary and the shifting of certain ...

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About 20 birds— geese, ducks and swans— normally outside on zoo grounds are now quarantined indefinitely inside buildings to ...

Several Ohio counties have been flagged by the Centers for Disease Control for having reported cases of potential bird flu in ...

According to the Akron Zoo, the birds are being moved indoors as a precaution and all of them "remain healthy." ...

The Akron Zoo said the birds will return to their outdoor exhibits when the bird flu risk decreases. The announcement comes a ...

The McCormick Bird House would be closed "until further notice," the zoo said. Two animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago have been traced to an outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu ...

That's the finding of the Colorado Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled against an animal rights group's lawsuit alleging a local zoo mistreated its elephants and caused them chronic frustration ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rio de Janeiro’s local zoo is giving ice pops to a bear, a jaguar, wolves and monkeys for some welcome ...

"Giraffes do fine when it's hot. That's kind of what they're built for," said the zoo's Chief Animal Program Officer, Dr. Jennifer D’Agostino. "They don't tolerate the cold as well so we have to make ...

The ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court follows a similar court defeat in New York in 2022 for an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo in a case brought by an animal rights group. Rulings in favor ...